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Re: Ports...which is the best?
lizbeth, I'm pretty sure I had a Bard port too. Since it was in my arm it was small. I liked it...other then the four inch scar that now runs across my arm. My surgeon & every doctor I ran into would ask me about it. (Battle wounds) Most doctors see it & asks me "What happened there?" It worked great thru my entire yr of chemo...not one problem...but from what I hear they are no longer placing them in the arm due to problems they ran across. (Yea...my arm is a good example of one of them!) Lucky me.
I just know the first time I had to do this they always had to call someone special for all my PET/CT's, Brain MRI's to find a vein. I've had so much damage to my veins it turned into a major production every time I needed a scan. I don't want to deal with that again. So hopefully the power port will work out ok....I hope it's not that big. I don't want some monster of a port that sticks out and drives me crazy.
Chelee
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DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes.
Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs.
Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06
Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07
3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07
9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV.
9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa
9-29-09 Power Port Placement
10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head.
11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed
12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa.
3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed.
4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone.
5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy.
Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time.
7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.
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